The United States doesn’t have a federal law banning cannibalism. It's rare someone able to consent to being eaten meets someone interested in eating them, but even that scenario raises a ton of ethical questions. Shiny's is the rare case where cannibalism was not only legal but ethical.

When asked why he did it, he said "Originally I wanted to have it taxidermied or freeze-dried. How cool would it be to have my freeze-dried or taxidermied foot standing around the house as a lamp or a doorstop or something? All of this came out of the idea that it’s my foot. It’s not going to be cremated and chucked into a landfill. It’s a part of me, and I want it back."

"My mom, who was helping me get back on my feet, so to speak, drove me back to pick it up. She doesn’t know I ate it, though. I went inside and the hospital gave me my foot in a red plastic bio-waste bag. I brought it to the car and immediately put it in a cooler. It was pretty bizarre."

And what did it taste like? Shiny says "This particular cut was super beefy. It had a very pronounced, beefy flavour to it. The muscle I cut was tough and chewy. It tasted good, but the experience wasn’t the best."

Shiny says this was a way to move forward after his accident. "Eating my foot was a funny and weird and interesting way to move forward."